Le Musée Rodin A Paris. Auguste Rodin lived from 1840-1917. Considered the head of modern sculpture Compared to Michaelangelo Not educated at the Ecole.

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1 Le Musée Rodin A Paris

2 Auguste Rodin lived from 1840-1917. Considered the head of modern sculpture Compared to Michaelangelo Not educated at the Ecole de Beaux Arts like most Obsessed with ancient and modern myths, the Bible, the Divine Comedy of Dante, and poems of Baudelaire. Known for lifelike sculptures with internal and external features…very realistic and modeled the human body Began as a decorator →sculptor Visited Italy →Michaelangelo influence Upon death left his studio and works to the govt. Today his home and gardens are the Musée Rodin in Paris!

3 Le Penseur par Auguste Rodin

4 Le Penseur en bronze et au jardin du musée

5 Les Bourgeois de Calais par Rodin

6 Le secret par Rodin

7 Le Portail De L’enfer AKA The Gates Of Hell

8 Balzac par Rodin

9 Pour les étudiants de 3ème Année….

10 Le Baiser par Rodin

11 cc Le Musée Rodin à Paris 1.Le Penseur ( the Thinker) Question : What is the statue thinking about? And what is Rodin, the sculptor, thinking about? _____________________________________ cc 2. Les Bourgeois de Calais Question: Why are the six men so solemn? _____________________________________

12 cc 3.Le Secret Question: What are the hands holding? ____________________________________ _____________________________________ cc 4.Le Portail de l’Enfer ( Gates of Hell) Question: This was originally made to be a portail (door) for a building. What kind of building??? _____________________________________

13 cc 5.Balzac Question: How long would you research someone before sculpting them? _____________________________________ cc 6.Inventez votre sculpture originale… Donnez une description de ce que c’est! _____________________________________

14 cc 7.Le Baiser Question: Why do you think the lips don’t actually touch? _____________________________________ cc 8. Qu’est-ce que tu préfères les sculptures ou les tableaux? Pourquoi? _____________________________________